A three-day cultural festival-event is planned in Ijevan ahead of Vardavar. With a creative approach and economic motivations, the community celebration will include the city of Ijevan and the settlements of Khashtarak, Achajur, Berkaber.

Ernest Khanumyan spoke with Lilit Ghalumyan, head of the Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Department of the Ijevan municipality, about the goals, process and many other details of the cultural event. 

On July 20, everyone is invited to Ijevan to take part in the three-day festival and enjoy the cultural celebrations.



In border guard Berkaber village, on the bank of Berkaber reservoir, the Khudaverdyan family established a persimmon orchard in 1988. The orchard is near the Azerbaijani positions and villages, and, therefore, it has not been cultivated properly for almost 20 years, but intensive work has been carried out in the park during the last 5 years. Currently, four types of persimmons are cultivated, two of which are intended for drying.

The orders are increasing year by year. Dry goods with the Berkaber logo are known not only in Armenia but also abroad, from London to the United Arab Emirates.

Due to their unbreakable will, the Khudaverdyans continue developing the border business.



During our discussion in the Tavush TV pavilion, we talked about the problems and challenges faced by the border villages and population. The guests of the discussion are Arkadi Yamukyan, Administrative head of Aygepar; Levon Amiraghyan, coordinator of the “NOY breath” youth initiative; and Gevorg Sahakyan, Administrative head of Baghanis.



Despite the border and regional tensions, the settlements of the enlarged Ijevan community continue to live their daily life and worries. There are many primary issues in the border communities; we talked about them with the residents of Berkaber and Kirants villages.



On September 6, at 2:44 pm, the Regional Crisis Management Center of Tavush was informed that there was a drowned person in the reservoir of Berkaber village. The help of rescuers was necessary to get him out.

One combat unit from the fire-rescue squad of the regional rescue department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia went to the scene of the incident.

The rescuers took the man’s body out of the village reservoir and brought it to the ambulance on a stretcher about 50 meters away.